The "ideal" solution to your problem is to transition to Content Providers and Loaders, and use the v4 compability library for backward compatibility. Doing so, solves this problem, since you no longer care about opening and closing the database connection, and you get benefit of doing the database operations in the background and not on the UI thread.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.